Headlines make the news sing: In addition to 100,000 serious-minded, seeking education gawkers dropping by, several other blogs linked to the post on the ancient animation. Far and away the best headline on any of those links: “So who’s whistlin’ now, Steamboat Willie?”
(What? Who is Steamboat Willie? Here, it’s history; you can look it up.)
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Posted by Ed Darrell
By now you should have learned this is not a place from which to get clockwork notes about blog carnivals to read. Sometimes I look at a carnival, and finding not much to interest me, I assume in all hubris that you won’t find much there, either. More often I get bogged down doing other things and just forget to note some.
I post about carnivals here when I think there is good material.
So, I gotta tell you: Run see the current 4 Stone Hearth, posted at remote central. It’s #29, and it’s a doozey.
For your geography classes, make a note here of Britain’s pyramid, “the inside story.” Didn’t know Britain had a pyramid?
See what I mean? How can you ignore stuff like that?
There are posts about volcanoes, posts about excavating shell mounds and prehistoric garbage dumps (no, Mr. Dembski, no Pebbles cereal boxes), your standard skeleton moving fees story, polyandrous sex and sexual dimorphism among human ancestors, and a couple of notes about the flooding of the Black Sea (“Noah’s flood”) and what that did to human civilization. And a bunch of other stuff.
This isn’t a kids’ carnival in any way. For your geography and history students, there is a lot of material in this one carnival about prehistory, material that simply will not be in the textbooks (but probably should be).
Great stuff. It’ll take a while to wade through all of it, and you will find material that will excite your students in class.
The next Four Stone Hearth is set for December 19th, at The Greenbelt.
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Just as a huge black hole can stifle star formation, so can a blog hole stifle post formation.
Woes at work and in volunteer positions — I’ve got a huge backlog of things that should be noted here, but are not noted yet — and may have to fall by the wayside.
Things change at work soon, I hope, and that should give me more time in more timely packets to think and find the stuff that needs to be here.
Thank you, Dear Reader, for bearing with me.
Image: NASA artist’s conception of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Come on in, the water's fine. Come often: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
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